Chalet Village Health and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home also received top notch inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in this area, with an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B+. The nursing rating is based on several datapoints, but the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning residents more often.

Turning to the next area, this facility also received a grade of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Moving on to the next category, this facility did not fare very well. Due to a poor grade of F in this area, this was obviously this facility's poorest category grade. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category may not provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities provide. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this nursing home vaccinated just 84.31373 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.